Rectangular_businessman I loathe this movie.It is totally hateful, from beginning to end, to the point of being unbearable to watch.I never saw in my entire life any other film with so much expressed disdain towards life. There were moments when I had the impression that the guy who directed this film had a truly and utter hate for Humanity and life in general as well. But maybe I'm over thinking things. The most probably thing is that he just were a hack obsessed with shock value, pretty much like Ruggero Deodato (Director of the infamous and almost equally awful "Cannibal Holocaust") Anyway, this is a terrible film, and I consider this to be one of the worst movies ever made.

Tyler Martinez I watched this today after having it on my NetFlix queue for a while, every once in a while I like the shocker flicks, and this one intrigued me... I was very disappointed... The opening was a little difficult to watch, and proved to be the most shocking to me. The rest of the film was hardly shocking at all, sure it had it's moments, the bull scene and the people bloodying up their legs for the Jesus run, but overall it was just a series of boring and highly forgettable stock footage clips accompanied by cheesy narration... The only thing "shocking" about this is that anyone would find it "shocking" to begin with... I guess I was just expecting a little too much.

jkhuysmans0 Whoa, this pre-MPAA film ratings system film, Mondo Cane, must have been quite a surprise to Gram and Gramps when they walked you in. The movie opens with a powerful sequence in which a wheezing and gnashing dog is dragged down a line of other not dissimilarly vicious dogs, twisting and snapping, before it's thrown in among them, behind the gate of a dusty and dirt-packed kennel, on the other side and the fence there, only to be assaulted and attacked by the entire gang of –dogs that is. Then, moving on to another interesting human to animal interaction scene, we're shown a set of New Guinea tribal elders ceremonially blunting a field of wild boars, each to a convulsive death, with a tree trunk that was fashioned into a dull point.What's of most notable interest here in this trend-setter of a picture is not the xenophobic representations (don't let the tag line fool you, these are representations) of our world citizens indigenous to the African and Asian contents –no, you get greater depth of story in Porno Holocaust which is an exclusive treatment on the topic of nuclear contamination- but rather the Otherization of the Los Angeles Hollywood American figure. For instance why in the world did comedic actor Jerry Lee Lewis honor his dead pet with a five-thousand dollar tombstone made of pure granite? And Zanuck, he and his clan did that too… Oh, just how easy it is, kids, in San Bernardino with all the violent machinery of the automobile graveyard to pack your Packard into a cube and ship it overseas to be made into some other "much smaller car." Making a pseudo-documentary about death and sex in series hyper-exoticized locations, while essentially meaningless, is just one Italian way of breaking the bank. Regardless, I'm quite looking forward to seeing Mondo Topless, because it has to be firm that one question didn't fail to pass the innocent lips of a San Francisco strip club on-looker and patron: "What the hell are those Italians doing here with those movie cameras?" Yo!

trotter-gc This movie was occasionally shown on television late at night in the mid 60s. My friends and I would stay up late at night on weekends and once in a while catch this and similar movies. It was very intriguing...my first exposure to the strangeness outside my small world.I recall a few specific scenes, including one from France that involved the ritualistic slicing of young men's faces by a barber with a straight-edged razor, as a mark of membership in some club. Most scenes, however, were from the farthest reaches of the planet, which made them seem altogether foreign and mysterious. Another scene I just recalled involved an African man being chased into the sea by some angry countrymen, and his eventual drowning. (Today, that would seem quite tame.) The film was mainly the chronicling of truly bizarre customs encountered in nooks and crannies around the world.The primary impetus of the production may have been to sensationalize, but it was also quite fascinating. I haven't seen it in decades, but I would like to.